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Published November 08, 2008 02:43 pm - Joe Lane Travis brought several photos to share with members of the Edmund Rogers Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting last week. They were photos he had taken while serving with A Battery of the Kentucky National Guard’s 1/623rd FA in Korea under the command of James T. Pace, also of Glasgow. Travis tells WWII story Shares photograph of Heartbreak Ridge By GINA KINSLOW Glasgow Daily Times Joe Lane Travis brought several photos to share with members of the Edmund Rogers Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting last week.
They were photos he had taken while serving with A Battery of the Kentucky National Guard’s 1/623rd FA in Korea under the command of James T. Pace, also of Glasgow. In one of the photos was Pace standing in a snow-covered field. Behind him were Heartbreak and Bloody ridges. “I took these photographs of them but I had no idea that was what they were when I was taking them,” said Travis, a Glasgow attorney. “It was many years later, when I sat down and looked at one of these maps that I determined, ‘My God that’s Heartbreak Ridge and Bloody Ridge and I didn’t even know it.’” The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was a major battle during the Korean War that occurred between Sept. 13 and Oct. 15, 1951. It followed another major battle, the Battle of Bloody Ridge, by only a few weeks. Both sites were in North Korea. Travis was not at Heartbreak Ridge when it was captured by United Nation’s troops, but he was nearby. “We shot on them a lot,” he said. Travis doesn’t talk much about his personal experiences during the Korean War. “I talk about what everyone else did, because everyone else did more than I did,” he said. Travis went to Korea as chief of a cannon section, but is a bit humble in talking about his tour of duty during the war. “I was an artilleryman. When you talk about war, there is so much difference between being in an airplane, or being an artilleryman, or being a tanker, or being an infantryman,” he said. “The ultimate soldier is the rifleman. I didn’t carry a rifle. I fired a cannon, and my battalion in the Korean War fired almost 170,000 rounds at the Communists. Each bullet weighed 96 pounds.” Travis and Pace knew each other before they deployed to Korea. “I first new (Pace) in the National Guard before Korea,” said Travis. “I probably knew him from 1948 on.” Travis describes Pace as being “one of the finest human beings I’ve ever known.” Pace is equally complimentary. 
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